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HEN a British bomber blasted a war plant in the Danish town ofSkive, Goebbels issued a communiqué saying that no damage was done except that a cow had been hit. The local paper published the communiqué, then commented simply: "The cow burned for four days." — Bulletin trom Britain. % * * NYTHING that is worth doing is worth doing swell.-Ken Alexander, 2YA. * * X* UR professor was a dismal soul — he embalmed the subject and let us view the remains.-Frances Fitzpatrick Wright.
LL that the American Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it your-self-Sir Gerald Campbell. * Ee oe FTER this war it will be far harder to unscramble the eggs that we have been forced to beat up together.-H. G. Wells. * % * DON’T tell white lies. Mine are all in technicolour-Charlie McCarthy. BS F * CALLOW youth once interjected at one of Mrs. Pankhurst’s Suffragette meetings: "Wouldn’t you like to be a man?" She replied quietly, "Yes, wouldn’t you?"--Basil Howard, 4YA. * * * OUR national tendency is to be not hard-boiled but half-baked.-Lord Eustace Percy. — _
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 168, 11 September 1942, Page 2
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